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Diana W. Thomas
Assistant Professor of Economics Department of Economics and Finance
Utah State University Huntsman School of Business
Logan, UT 84322-3565
phone: 435-***-****
e-mail: *****.******@***.***
website: www.dianaweinert.com
ACADEMIC POSITIONSAugust 2009 - Assistant Professor of Economics, Utah State University
EDUCATION
May 2009 Ph.D. Economics, George Mason University
May 2007 M.A. Economics, George Mason University
May 2004 B.S. Finance, George Mason University
May 2004 Diploma in Business Administration, University of Applied
Sciences (Aachen/Germany)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
(undergraduate co-authors are listed in bold)
In and out of the Commons Extractive Public Entrepreneurship and the Aggie Blue Bikes
Program, (with Ryan Yonk and Steve Young), Journal of Public and Municipal Finance,
forthcoming (accepted August 2011).
"The Institutional Context of Epistemic Communities: Experts in PT Bauer's work,"
Advances in
Austrian Economics, forthcoming (accepted August 2011).
Two-Tiered Political Entrepreneurship and the Congressional Committee System, (with
Adam
Martin) Public Choice, forthcoming (accepted May 2011).
Entrepreneurship: Catallactic and Constitutional Perspectives, (with Michael Thomas)
The Review
of Austrian Economics, forthcoming (accepted February 2011).
The Brewer, the Baker, and the Monopoly Maker, (with Peter Leeson) The Journal of
Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, forthcoming (accepted November 2010).
Encouraging a Productive Research Agenda: Peter Boettke and the Devil s Test, (with
Michael D.
Thomas) Journal of Private Enterprise, 26(1)2010:103-115.
Bootleggers, Baptists and Political Entrepreneurs: Key Players in the Rational and
Morality Play of
Regulatory Politics, (with Randy Simmons and Ryan Yonk) The Independent
Review,15(3)2010.
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Deregulation Despite Transitional Gains The Brewers Guild of Cologne 1461, Public
Choice,140(3)2009:329-3340.
BOOK CHAPTERS
I ve Got a Monopoly to Maintain! Market Failure in The Simpsons in Joshua C. Hall (ed.)
Homer
Economicus: The Simpsons and Economics, New York: Copernicus, forthcoming (accepted
September 2010).
How government regulation of child care harms women in Sharon Presley and Jan Stover
(eds.)
The Free Woman (accepted July 2011).
POLICY PAPERS
Brief-Analyses: Increasing the Supply of affordable Child Care National Center for
Policy
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Analysis, November 30 2011.
Increasing the Supply of Affordable Child Care in Roger Koppl (eds.) Enterprise
Programs:
Freeing Entrepreneurs to Provide Essential Services for the Poor A Task Force Report
National
Center for Policy Analysis, August 2011.
WORKING PAPERS
[Note: Bold indicates undergraduate co-author]
Corporate Lobbying, Political Connections, and the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program,
(with
Ben Blau and Tyler Brough) under review at the Journal of Financial Economics.
Rational Irrationality and the Micro Foundations of Reform, (with Michael Thomas and
Nick
Snow) working paper.
The law of the taxi private institutions for the protection of property rights among
taxi drivers in
Trujillo, Peru, (with Michael Clark and Humberto Alba Castillo) working paper.
The Treason of Rules: Political Entrepreneurship, Representative Government, and
Constitutional
Constraints, (with Adam Martin) working paper.
Assume Markets for Organs, (with Michael Thomas) working paper.
Not without my Human Capital Economic Freedom and the Brain Drain, (with Adam Martin)
work in progress.
Passing the Peltzman Test - An Entrepreneurial Theory of Regulation, work in progress.
Is the Division of Labor Limited by the Complexity of Language? (with Christopher
Nelson) work
in progress.
Amity and the Extent of the Market, (with Adam Martin) work in progress.
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PAPER PRESENTATIONS
JOURNAL REFEREE
Public Choice
The Review of Austrian Economics
The Journal of Private Enterprise
COURSES TAUGHT
Global Economic Environment (ECN 3400), Utah State University, Fall 2011
Global Economic Environment (ECN 3400), Utah State University, Fall 2011
Global Economic Environment (ECN 3400), Utah State University, Spring 2011
Global Economic Environment (ECN 3400), Utah State University, Spring 2011
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Independent Study in Development Economics with Michael Clark (ECN 4900), USU, Fall 2010
Global Economic Environment (ECN 3400), Utah State University, Fall 2010
Global Economic Environment (ECN 3400), Utah State University, Fall 2010
Global Economic Environment (ECN 3400), Utah State University, Spring 2010
Global Economic Environment (ECN 3400), Utah State University, Spring 2010
Introduction to Microeconomics (ECN 2010), Utah State University, Fall 2009
Introduction to Microeconomics (ECN 2010), Utah State University, Fall 2009
Economics for the Citizen (ECON 100), George Mason University, Fall 2008
Principles of Macroeconomics (ECON 104), George Mason University, Summer 2008
Intermediate Microeconomics (ECON 306), George Mason University, Spring 2007 and Fall
2006
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Koch Scholars, with Randy Simmons and Chris Fawson, August 2009 -
Search Committee for Director of Entrepreneurial Programs for the Huntsman School of
Business, April/May 2011.
Economic Impact Study of the USU Athletics Department: The Contribution of the Utah
State
University Athletic Department to the Utah Economy, with Paul Jakus, August 2009 -
October
2010.
PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT
Started a weekly political economy paper workshop for faculty at the Economics and the
Political
Science Departments at USU.
Member of a weekly online paper workshop with colleagues from New York University, George
Mason University, Loyola University New Orleans, and Buena Vista University.
FELLOWSHIPS AND ACADEMIC HONORS
2012 Researcher of the Year, Jon M Huntsman School of Business, Utah
State University
2012 Researcher of the Year, Department of Economics and Finance, Utah
State University
July 2011 Summer Research Grant, College of Business, Utah State University
May 2009 William P. Snavely Award Outstanding Graduate Student in
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Economics, George Mason University
August 2008 present Mercatus Center Dissertation Fellow
May 2008 August 2008 Mercatus Center Summer Research Fellowship
August 2005 May 2008 Research and Teaching Assistantship, Economics Department,
George Mason University
June 2006 August 2006 Koch Summer Fellowship
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